Her 19-year-old son, Tre Devon Lane, had been shot and killed Sept. 22, and his funeral packed the Jerusalem Baptist Church on North Clinton Avenue.

Many of the black-clad mourners wept through a service that celebrated the young man’s life, paid tribute to his parents and asked Trenton residents to help stop the violence that plagues the city’s streets.

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Lane jumped in front of two female companions, shielding them from a slew of gunfire by unknown suspects. The shooters had opened fire on four people on the front porch of a home in the 1100 block of New Willow Street around 3:15 a.m. on a Saturday morning. Three of the victims were wounded and Lane was fatally shot, running around the corner before collapsing in a home on Kirkbride Avenue.

“The final act in Tre’s life, lines up with the word of God,” said his aunt, Bishop Victoria Pollard, addressing the more than 400 in attendance. “He laid down and gave his life for a friend.”

Friends and relatives said Lane was a well-behaved young man who loved basketball and loved the ladies, but loved his mother the most. A Trenton native, Lane was raised by his mother, who works as an educator at the Cadwalader Elementary School, and by his father and stepfather, who taught him to be a positive influence in his community.

All in attendance agreed that the loss of his life should call attention to the gun violence in Trenton. On Sept. 24, his mother tearfully pleaded with the residents of Trenton, during a news conference at the Trenton police department, asking anyone who knew anything about her son’s slaying to come forward.

“Please if you know something or hear something the call the police,” she said. “I don’t want street justice, I want a justice system. I want him to go through that system and see that pain in my eyes.”

At Wednesday’s service, mourners who stood outside the church blamed the violence on a lack of positive resources in the city.

“They are closing down libraries, there are no positive extracurricular activities and the kids are just left to do negative things,” said Lane’s family member, Joan Bing. “I remember growing up in Trenton and we had roller-skating rinks and places to go to keep busy, now these kids just hang out on the corner and try to make money.”

According to family members, Mayor Tony Mack visited with the slain teen’s parents early Wednesday morning but did not stay for the funeral.

The service program, titled A Celebration of Life and distributed during the funeral, was covered with pictures of Lane as a baby, a toddler, a young child and finally as an accomplished graduate dressed in his cap and gown.

Lane graduated in 2011 from Trenton Central High School, where staff members knew him as a lanky student who always had a smile on his face and never spoke ill of anyone. He attended Mercer County Community College and was applying to William Paterson University, where he planned to pursue a degree and become a social worker.

“He’s got a strong mother with a loud voice,” the mayor’s niece, Shannon Mack, said Wednesday. “Look at what we have here today, over 400 people brought together because of one young man and I know Regina will not stop…she will be a loud voice and try to bring some sort of peace to Trenton’s streets.”